coroutine
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Although a powerful tool, coroutines can be hard to understand due to the way data can flow back and forth between sections of the code."
- "The actual origin of the concept of symmetric unit control is difficult to determine. One of the earliest published applications of coroutines was in the area of syntax analysis (Conway, 1963)."
- "Python coroutines are the product of a series of enhancements to the humble generator functions we've seen so far in the book."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-lbor. English co- French routineubor. English routine English coroutine From co- + routine, coined by American computer scientist Melvin Conway in 1958.